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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Oats Bisi Bele Bhath

The
thing about South Indian cuisine apart from being extremely tasty is
that they are mostly full of rice-based dishes. And being more health
conscious now, I try to replicate the popular dishes with something
healthy. In some cases it is replacing rice with oats or wheat. Here
I tried out making Bisi Bele Bhath with oats instead of rice and the
results were quite satisfactory.

Bisi
bele bhath is a famous rice-based dish Karnataka. Bisi-bele-bhath
translates to hot-lentil-rice in the Kannada language. It is also
known as Bisi bele huliyanna. The preparation of this dish is quite
elaborate, involving preparation of spice powder. The spices used,
contribute to the unique flavor and taste of this dish. It is served
hot along with boondi or potato chips.

So here's
our Oats BBB, in fact simpler to make than the traditional one...